Improvement in buttons



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Buttons,

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ATTORNEYS.

NJETHS. PNOTWUTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D 04 UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

' WILLIAM HORNIOH, 0E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,277, dated August 3, 1875; application filed June 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HORNIOH, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Button, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to so improve 'the manufacture of cloth-covered buttons that they may not only be attached in an easier and quicker manner to the coats, 860., but also be made of more durable and reliable construction.

The invention consists of a button which is made with a loop-shaped re-enforciu g wire, retained by the metallic shells of the same, for strengthening the fastenin g fabric of the same.

In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 and 2 respectively represent bottom and side views of the re-enforcing wire as attached to interior disk of button. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of the furnished button on the line 0 c, Fig. 4.; and Fig. 4., a bottom view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A represents the upper, and B the lower, per

forated metallic shell of my button 5 and O, the

its ends into the filling-disk, and formed centrally between the ends into a U-shaped loop of the size of the central perforation of the lower shell B, so that the loop or eye may project through the same when finishing the button and inserting the disk, and re-enforce thereby the cloth section used for attaching the button. The bent re-enforcing wire D forms an eye of such stiifness that the button may be readily sewed on by pressing it on the cloth, which indicates, at the opposite side clearly the exact position of the button, and admits the rapid and easy passage of the needle through the eye without feeling for the button, as heretofore.

By sewing on the button with the wire in the direction of the button-hole the same closes easier over the eye part without being widened.

The button cannot tear out by use, as it retains its resistance to wear on account of its strong and substantial construction, being also advantageous to tailors, &c., by the economy in time and labor required for sewing on the button.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improvement in buttons, the combi- WILLIAM HORNIGH. n s.]

Witnesses AUG. SIPPEL, TAVA Moss. 

